Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) कक्षा ६ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Look at these sentences.

• Deserts are the driest places on earth.
• Gerbils spend the hottest part of the day in cool underground burrows.

Now form pairs. Ask questions using a suitable form of the word in brackets. Try to answer the questions too.

Do you know

1. Which animal is the _______________________ (tall)?

2. Which animal runs the _______________________ (fast)?

3. Which place on earth is the _______________________ (hot) or the _______________________ (cold)?

4. Which animal is the _______________________ (large)?

5. Which is the ————————————— (tall) mountain in the world?

6. Which is the _______________________ (rainy) place on earth?

7. Which is the ________________________ (old) living animal?

Can you add some questions of your own?

Imagine you are journeying through a desert. Write a couple of paragraphs describing what you see and hear.

In groups of four discuss some more ‘whatifs’ that you experience in your day to day life and list them out.

(i) ______________________________

(ii) ______________________________

(iii) _____________________________

(iv) _____________________________

(v) _____________________________

(vi) ____________________________

(vii) ___________________________

(viii) ___________________________

And now write a poem of five or six lines with the ‘whatifs’ that you have listed.

Your teacher will speak the words listed below. Write against each a word of opposite meaning.
Examples:
liquid-solid
hard-soft
1. old —————
2. wet —————
3. open —————
4. blunt —————
5. forget —————

Notice the use of ‘there’ in the following sentences.

• There was a big crowd at the fair.

• There were many things I’d have liked to buy.

Now rewrite the following sentences using ‘there’ in the beginning. Look at the following examples.

• I can do nothing to help you.

• There is nothing I can do to help you.

• A man at the door is asking to see you.

• There is a man at the door asking to see you.

1. This park has beautiful roses.

2. Your story has no fun in it.

3. We have no secrets between us.

4. My village has two primary schools.

5. This problem can be solved in two ways.

Fill in the blanks in the paragraph below with words from the box.

There was a ___________ Eid fair in our village. We could buy anything from a
____________ toy to a ____________ camel. I went to the fair on its ___________ day with Uncle and Bhaiya. We went to the Lucky Shop. It was
very____________ . I tried my luck but did not win any prize. Later, Uncle told me that I was more ___________ than___________ .

Suppose you are Rasheed. Describe in your own words your visit to the fair. Do not refer to the Lucky Shop.

You mush have noticed that when we report someone’s exact words, we have to make some changes in the sentence structure. In the following sentences fill in the blanks to list the changes that have occurred in the above pairs of sentences. One has been done for you.

1. To report a question, we use the reporting verb asked (as in Sentence Set 1).

2. To report a declaration, we use the reporting verb __________.

3. The adverb of place here changes to ___________.

4. When the verb in direct speech is in the present tense, the verb in reported speech is in the ______________ tense (as in Sentence Set 3).

5. If the verb in direct speech is in the present continuous tense, the verb in reported speech changes to ______________tense. For example, ____________ changes to was getting.

6. When the sentence in direct speech contains a word denoting respect, we add the adverb _______________in the reporting clause (as in Sentence Set 1).

7. The pronouns I, me, our and mine, which are used in the first person in direct speech, change to third person pronouns such as____________, ___________, ___________ or __________in reported speech.

How did the two baby birds get separated?

Where did each of them find a home?

What did the first bird say to the stranger?

What did the second bird say to him?

How did the rishi explain the different ways in which the birds behaved?

Which one of the following sums up the story best?

How did different companies affect the character and behaviour of the two birds?

What amazed the king as he stood near the cave?

How did the other bird greet the king?

Narrate the tale of two birds in your own words.

How did the king reach the rishi’s ashram? Why did the two birds behave with the king differently?

Why did the farmer bring a baby mongoose into the house?